On A Roll

After reading this post, you *might* think I’m a little obsessed with dice activities :) Not true…however, my kids totally are!!! And I know that when they’re excited, I might as well milk it for all it’s worth! HA! One of my firsties told me today, “You know what’s weird?! I feel like I’m having a lot of fun, but really I’m learning!” Oops…guess the cat’s outta the bag ;)

I’m LOVING this little activity…and so are the kids!! This activity focuses on ADJECTIVES. Now, I might be obsessed with that!! HA!! I prepared 7 envelopes. 6 envelopes contained 4-5 different adjectives. 1 envelope contained 12-15 different sentence strips. The kids had to choose a sentence strip from the sentence envelope and then roll the die. Then they had to choose 2 adjectives from the envelope that matched their roll. SO…if they rolled a 6, they picked 2 adjectives from the envelope labeled 6.

Then they had to figure out where to fit the adjectives into their sentence to make a silly statement! They had SUCH a BLAST with this one!!! It was so much fun to see what they wrote….the sentences & illustrations were awesome! And it was a great activity to reinforce adjective placement. They had to know that adjectives describe a noun and they couldn’t just put them any ol’ place in the sentence. FUN!

This next activity was too much fun!! The kids were given 3 different dice labeled with adjectives, nouns, & verbs. I just cut out words and did a very poor job of TAPING them on :) Whatever works, right?! They had to roll all three dice and record the words on which they landed. They had to know that each word was either a verb/noun/adjective for recording purposes. Then they had to use all 3 words in a sentence. They did such a great job! I was so proud of them!!!!

The kids have requested that we keep both of these activities in their stations for the rest of the week. I love it when that happens!

We’re just finishing up a few little mini-lessons and activities on fact & opinion. I know that can be a tricky concept for the kids to grasp, but my kids had so many questions about “opinions” that I decided it was time to teach them about it!!! We are having SO much fun and the kids are learning SO much! I’ve overheard a few of my firsties say to their friends, “well, that’s your OPINION.” HA!!!

I am loving all of these activities. I printed the dice games for my kinder smarties. I wish I had more dice. They sell them at target in the dollar section from time to time, I should have stocked up. You are awesome!!

Great as always! Thanks for sharing your materials and inspiring creativity. You always set the bar high. It is very motivating. Your center materials are always challenging, yet grade level appropriate.

Thanks for sharing your ideas. How do you find time to do this? I have a blog, which my students share their learning with their families (https://h2u.hartlake.org/users/kbatchelor/). I hope to get to the point where I feel comfortable and have time to start a blog for other educator's as well.

Fantastic Adjective Activity. We did adjectives last week but they just were not secure in it! I can't wait to put this together for my intervention groups. Thanks for sharing!Lori www.littlepriorities.blogspot.com

Your activities are amazing! I tried to download the sentences and print them, but when I printed them and the adjectives, it came out blank. Is there any other way I can get these from you? Thank you so much for your willingness to share!

Love the adjective games! I will use them next week when we return from break! Something I do to help my students understand the parts of speech is to color code words when I introduce the parts. Blue for nouns, green for verbs (GO!) and purple for adjectives. My students brainstorm words and I write them on colored construction paper that matches my coding. Then for practice I write a sentence with blanks for these three parts of speech and I color code the blanks. Hope that makes sense!

I just have to laugh when you say you are obsessed with dice games, because I feel that way too, but kids relate and learn and that is what it is all about. I love your ideas, keep posting them. You are wonderful to share Thanks

I just saw your adjective game on pinterest and came to your site. I tried to download your pages but I can't. Can you help me with this? My students would really like these! I even have the large Dice! Thanks!Patswaffordp2@aol.com

I came across these great games via Pinterest (thank God for Pinterest!), but I am also having trouble printing. If it's not too much trouble, can you please send it to me if that will solve the problem? Thank you! melissacarpenter(dot)slp(at)gmail(dot)com

Hi, I was wondering if you could share your link for the large dice? I found some on Amazon, but they are pricey and I'm not positive they are even large enough to use for this activity. Thank you for sharing and Happy New Year!